Strong's #520: 'ammah (pronounced am-maw')
prolonged from 517; properly, a mother (i.e. unit of measure, or the fore-arm (below the elbow), i.e. a cubit; also a door-base (as a bond of the entrance):--cubit, + hundred (by exchange for 3967), measure, post.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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'ammâh
1) cubit - a measure of distance (the forearm), roughly 18 inches (.5 meters). There are several cubits used in the OT, the cubit of a man or common cubit (Deuteronomy 3:11), the legal cubit or cubit of the sanctuary (Ezekiel 40:5) plus others. See a Bible Dictionary for a complete treatment.
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: prolonged from H517
Usage:
This word is used 245 times:
Isaiah 6:4: " And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled"
Jeremiah 51:13: "in treasures, thine end and the measure of thy covetousness."
Jeremiah 52:21: "of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet"
Jeremiah 52:21: "was eighteen cubits; and a fillet cubits did compass it; and the thickness"
Jeremiah 52:22: "of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters"
Ezekiel 40:5: "and in the man's hand reed of six cubits long by the cubit and a handbreadth:"
Ezekiel 40:5: "hand reed of six cubits long by the cubit and a handbreadth: so he measured"
Ezekiel 40:7: "the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by"
Ezekiel 40:9: "the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts cubits; and the porch"
Ezekiel 40:9: "cubits; and the posts cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward."
Ezekiel 40:11: "of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; of the gate, thirteen"
Ezekiel 40:11: "of the gate, thirteen cubits."
Ezekiel 40:12: "also before the little chambers was one cubit on this side, and the space was one on that side:"
Ezekiel 40:12: "cubit on this side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the little chambers were six"
Ezekiel 40:12: "on that side: and the little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six"
Ezekiel 40:12: "were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side."
Ezekiel 40:13: "to the roof of another: the breadth and twenty cubits, door against door."
Ezekiel 40:14: "also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post round about"
Ezekiel 40:15: "gate were fifty cubits."
Ezekiel 40:19: "of the inner without, a hundred cubits eastward and northward."
Ezekiel 40:21: "after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five"
Ezekiel 40:21: "thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits."
Ezekiel 40:23: "from gate to gate a hundred cubits."
Ezekiel 40:25: "like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty"
Ezekiel 40:25: "and the breadth five and twenty cubits."
Ezekiel 40:27: "gate toward the south a hundred cubits."
Ezekiel 40:29: "in it and in the porches it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty"
Ezekiel 40:29: "cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad."
Ezekiel 40:30: "round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five"
Ezekiel 40:30: "and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad."
Ezekiel 40:33: "therein and in the porches it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty"
Ezekiel 40:33: "cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad."
Ezekiel 40:36: "to it round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty"
Ezekiel 40:36: "and the breadth five and twenty cubits."
Ezekiel 40:42: "stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit half long, and a cubit"
Ezekiel 40:42: "half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit"
Ezekiel 40:42: "and a half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid"
Ezekiel 40:47: "the court, a hundred cubits long, and a hundred broad,"
Ezekiel 40:47: "cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before"
Ezekiel 40:48: "each post of the porch, cubits on this side, and five cubits"
Ezekiel 40:48: "cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth"
Ezekiel 40:48: "on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side,"
Ezekiel 40:48: "of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side."
Ezekiel 40:49: "The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits;"
Ezekiel 40:49: "cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; whereby they went up"
Ezekiel 41:1: "the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six"
Ezekiel 41:1: "broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side,"
Ezekiel 41:2: "And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five"
Ezekiel 41:2: "and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits"
Ezekiel 41:2: "on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured"
